lets see what will they say

very nice answer. however changing the name Philippines, i think that would be to hard to do. and many of our historians may wouldn't agree with it, however maybe we could appeal to the higher court. moreover, for me there's no problem with it since i don't have any hatred with those Spaniards. what I'm thinking now is that,what if we are state of us. i know you know also that there is this one time before when the us government is trying to make Philippines as one of it's states. maybe most of our co Filipinos nowadays are not suffering form extreme hardships. well, I'm not saying i should have been an American. however, above all, I'm still a Filipino and history is history, this may happen without a purpose. we're Filipinos so be it. just in case you were given the chance to choose a name for our country, what name will you suggest?

Indeed, that's a very hard thing to do, not to mention long process. I don't have a grudge on the Spaniards either. It is just a thought inspired by my history teacher back in college~ I do think, if it were called Island of South Asian America or Republic of Nippon Tagalog, or any other American or Japanese derived name, I still wouldn't like it. And honestly, I have been thinking about a name after I wrote that comment~ I was leaning towards a Rizal-derived name or one similar to Bansa-Moro.

sounds great,... moro but after a while i remember the word moron... yah, most Spaniards before called Filipinos as morons. and i don't know what moro word is. is that a tagalog word? or a spanish derived word also?

yah... that true, and i love the way we care for our family..